Improved clothes-washer



, @00Go OQOOGOOOO@ @Oo C OQO OQO@ @OOO o O00 0000 @000090 ARIADNA B.MERCIER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND..

IMPROVED CLOTH ES-WASHER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,773. dated July 31,v1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARIADNA B. MERCIER,

.of Providence, in the county of Providence `easily in a clothes-boilerof any shape. This plate is perforated 'with small holes, having onelarge hole in the center, Fig. 4.. This hole is provided with a stopperB, Figs. 1 and 2. On the under side of plate A are four legs, for thepurpose of keeping it a suitable distance from the bottom of aclothes-boiler When in use, as shown by dotted lines on Figs. 2 and 3. y

What my invention consists in, and to use the same, is, when the spaceunder plate A, which is formed by the application of my invention in aboiler, is lled With Water, and the stopper B being in the large hole,the clothes to be washed are placed on either side and around thisstopper. The boiler isthen placed over a fire. As soon as the Watercommences to boil, the stopper B is removed, the

center hole being so large that `the ebullition by boiling causes a jetof Water to be forced up through this hole, and, falling back on theclothes, rinsing them, and runs` down through the small holes into thespace under plate A, making a continuous revolution of the Water, which,in connection With the steam, removes all dirt from the Clothes.V

By the use of my invention clothes can be washed Without rubbing `themand in onequarter the time, rendering them AWhiter and saving thefabric, as it is not necessary to use a Wash-board in connection with myinvention, the advantages of which can be plainly seen,

vas rubbing the clothes destroys them more or less Without renderingthem as clean, and being a laborious process.

With my invention, one hour boiling, Athe clothes can be put into thelast rinsing-Water, Wrung out, and hung on the line to dry.

I do not claim the boilerfor boiling clothes in 5 but What I do claim asmy invention, and Wish 'to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of a perforated plate with a stopper, in the manner setforth, and for the purpose specied.

ARIADNA B. MERCIER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES L.' SPENCER, SARAH A. ALLEN.

